Valery zhelezov alternative method of gardening. Zhelezov Valery. Alternative gardening method (2012) Video course. Seminar by Alexander Rykalin "Growing southern grapes in regions with a cold climate"
Two years ago, the "Herald of the Gardener" had an article about an outstanding gardener from Sayanogorsk Valery Konstantinovich Zhelezov, his Siberian garden is shown, which is just right to be in the Kuban. He endlessly plants, grafts, grows, collects, analyzes. And he writes a lot.
SPEECH 1: Mysterious large-fruited apricot clones in my garden
Friends, you have already got acquainted with seedling apricots, which I called “mysterious”, since, except for the old patriarch, the Manchurian apricot, all of them have changed beyond recognition in a matter of years or even in one year (the last one), especially the fruits.
Well, how are things with medium and large-fruited?
SPEECH 2: The Enchanted World of Gardening and Its Amazing People
SPEECH 3: Notes of an Enchanted Siberian Gardener-1
Hi friends! I hope you are not in danger of drowsiness, turning into a deep sleep, when reading my stories. Yes, yes, just stories, not boring instructions. You - those who do not have monkeys in their ancestors, but people with brilliant brains and high morals - easily adapt to my, not quite ordinary philosophy.
SPEECH 4: We all came out of the people, children of the working family
Once upon a time, back in the pre-war years, 2,000 selection scientific plots were created. It is unlikely that they were useful in the era of illiteracy of the peasants and the persecution of "geneticists". Then a time of disappointment and, finally, high (Academy) and even practical (NII and GSU) science became a closed order, classified to the limit ...
SPEECH 5: Siberia-Ukraine: you can’t execute - pardon ...
I'll start with a letter:
"Valery Konstantinovich! Perhaps you will remember me: last year we corresponded with you about the publication of your articles in a Ukrainian newspaper. Now the first book on your alternative gardening has already been published in our Organic Farming Club (Kyiv). I would like to accept your tree planting method
SPEECH 6: New times have come - we must keep up!
(From the endless Notes of an Enchanted Siberian Gardener).
Friends! The whole world is in shock - Russia "sent" the West and decided to feed itself.Alas, I never got into politics and explained many negative things in garden life not by the machinations of "enemies", but by our unwillingness to keep up with the West,
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NEXT TO THE GREAT: Boris Iosifovich Bodnar
Meet the hydro-builder from the village of Cheryomushki (a suburb of Sayanogorsk). And part-time - the best and most successful of the Sayanogorsk, amateur gardener Boris Iosifovich Bodnar. His art of growing the most capricious and non-frost-resistant crop, cherries, has no analogues throughout the cold part of Russia and the world. An absolute Michurinian, and I. Michurin's books are his garden bible.
IRON NURSERY: production of non-killable seedlings
Friends, what you have read before and will read now does not fit into everyday practice in Russia.
BETTER TO SEE ONCE: video about pruning, ants and seedlings
This time I want to offer you a few videos. Shooting Sayanogorsk television. The action takes place in the summer of 2014 in the village of Krasny Khutor, Shushensky District, Krasnoyarsk Territory. The most topical topics …
What rich material! A healthy gardener will find a lot of useful things here. If you are not as hot-tempered as Zhelezov, are not inclined to constant experiments, are not ready to endlessly re-graft and increase the frost resistance of plants by “layering a mentor”, but you want to quickly get the fruits of southern crops, then close your cherries, peaches the way the son of Valery Konstantinovich does.
VIDEO LESSONS AND LECTURES BY VALERY ZHELEZOV
This page contains truly invaluable material - all video tutorials and lectures in outstanding gardener from SayanogorskValery Konstantinovich ZHELEZOV. The master generously shares his experience and knowledge with everyone - just absorb ...
Foreword by SC Editor-in-Chief Alexander Rebrik.
Zhelezov Valery Konstantinovich is a famous Siberian gardener-experimenter. Thanks to his love for Nature, aspiration, and many years of work, he learned to grow healthy trees and create gardens that delight with their harvest every year. In the climatic conditions of Siberia (down to -40 degrees in winter), Valery Konstantinovich has been successfully growing southern varieties of apricots, apples, pears, plums for decades ...
The experience of Valery Konstantinovich really deserves special attention. As the master himself says, his agricultural technology is in many ways an alternative to the classical canons promoted by official science.
When you are considered a stranger in science,
Trying to embrace the whole world alone
You spend years in hard torment
After all, everything needs to be explained
But the first garden in the wasteland
Dispelled all your doubts
Now for the joy of the kids
The fruits are the work of miraculous hands.
You became a support for Siberians
Your advice is invaluable to them.
You are always ready to send cuttings
You send excellent answers through Fazenda.
May the New Year be happy for you
And let your gardens smell fragrant,
And thousands of people who care about the earth,
Wishing you health and happiness.
Zhelezov V.K. - patriot of the Motherland. With great respect Filippov A.V.
Path to Mastery
The wonderful world of Sayanogorsk gardening
It all started in 1985. In a casual conversation, I suddenly heard a phrase that turned my whole life upside down: REAL plums grow in the city of Sayanogorsk under construction. I take a vacation, I come, I get to the city market - an exhibition of agricultural products. I walk through the market, I see an amazing picture: sixty people are sitting on the market square, in front of each from one to 10 buckets of selected plums of all colors of the rainbow - yellow, blue, dark blue, black, red, red-pink, yellow-red, etc. d. I go further - giant vegetables, immediately the housewives offer seeds (from them I grew the first crop in my life - carrots the size of a bottle and beets the size of my head). And then - 500-gram apples of Aport-Almaatinsky, Borovinka, White Naliv, Papirovka, a variety of Ranetki and semi-culturing! It became an event, more precisely, a revelation of my life. The wonderful world of Sayanogorsk gardening opened before me. It was then that the myth collapsed in the minds that only ranetki could flourish in Siberia.
What I saw and studied is a real fairy tale! From that moment on, like many tens of thousands of builders, power engineers and metallurgists in the 80-90s, I became a gardener, I never missed a chance to get another seedling or at least cut off the top. At first - some failures (or dead vaccinations or "freaks"). But after many years, the understanding came that the best fragment (stalk) for grafting is not even the middle of a cut branch (literary sources), but the lower 2-3 buds, not counting 2 sleeping ones. This important discovery, along with similar others, made it possible in one short summer to grow plums and apricots up to 2-2.5 m high on 2-year-old rootstocks, with a powerful skeleton of dozens of branches and hundreds of mature flower buds.
The experience of the first works
Learned to vaccinate. He grafted like everyone else - in the "stump under the bark." Excellent result. But! Years passed, and already adult apple trees began to dry out or, worse, to collapse under the weight of the harvest. Conclusion - "fixing" a stock with a scion is not right! After trying a few more tricks, he settled on exactly “improved copulation” and “into a stump - into a split.” Excellent, reliable adhesion of the scion to the stock.
The makings of a future breeder showed up in a little trick. Since the summer cottage is not dimensionless, I go to the forest, do a hundred vaccinations for the wild berry apple tree Sibirka, aged 1-3 years. By autumn, I choose the most powerful seedlings (some already with fruit branches!) And transfer them to my garden. Then the first observations appear: the older the stock, the faster the scion; the lower the grafting site, the more powerful the seedling and the fewer dead or undersized scions.
In the very first spring of 1985, he bought a summer cottage in the Shushensky district (the village of Krasny Khutor). Now it has become a place of pilgrimage for journalists, television, scientists and ordinary gardeners. Over the years, they have eaten tons of delicious fruits in my garden. And it began like this: an old neighbor advised me to plant cultivated apple trees on the berry apple tree Sibirka. She obviously did not read I. Michurin, who "sentenced" Sibirka in one sentence, arguing that supports for frost-resistant rootstocks do not affect the frost resistance of the crown. Yes, and modern authors have not gone far, accusing Sibirka of incompatibility with large-fruited varieties of apple trees. Meanwhile, Sibirka is the only local resident of fruit trees. And the flowering of Sayanogorsk apple gardening is connected precisely with it.
The seminar is conducted by Zhelezov V.K.
I, still an inexperienced grafter, got good seedlings, and in half the cases I waited for the harvest of any varieties in the form of cuttings, ordered or brought from European Russia and Ukraine.
Worse was the case with cultivated pears. Everything offered by the local market was inedible or almost inedible. Found in an abandoned garden dozens of old Ussuri pears with annual crazy harvests. Here they are - the long-awaited rootstocks! The result exceeded all expectations. A young pear orchard (third-fifth generation) of world standard varieties passed the exam after the last forty-degree snowless winter. Most varieties of pears "did not notice" it and gave a normal harvest.
Thanks to gardeners unknown to me who brought (God knows when) Chinese (Ussuri) plums, and rootstocks for luxurious southern plums also ceased to be a problem. For southern cherries and sweet cherries, a frost-resistant stock was also found. It turned out to be the Siberian stem cherry, brought in ancient times by the "Stolypin" settlers. For a long life in Siberia, it has grown wild, lost the size and taste of fruits, but as a frost-resistant rootstock it has no equal.
Knowledge is important!
In 1992, a new stage in my life began. For the first time in the history of Russia, land was distributed free of charge to future farmers, but they demanded that I, a metallurgist, pass exams in gardening. I ran to the library, surrounded myself with books for students of universities and technical schools. It turned out that we need to start with growing a living wall of wild plants protecting from the wind. And this is how many years it takes! Then you need to apply mineral fertilizers (full set) and plow all 5 hectares. Then get only zoned grafted seedlings in state nurseries, etc.
The result - I passed the exam, but everyone did it in their own way. Fertilizers were not applied, why poison. They didn’t plow, why cripple the living soil. Even then, I had seditious thoughts that the health and frost resistance of fruit trees depends primarily on the condition of the soil untouched by a plow and a shovel, i.e. from the life of the entire underworld. A cart of earth, poured out on top of the turf, and already in it a small hole strictly according to the size of the straightened roots. In the autumn, 1650 ready-made seedlings were brought from the taiga (literally nearby) - the rootstocks of Siberians and immediately planted in permanent places. The first years were windy. The most powerful seedlings broke and fell, even when tied to stakes. Adapted. Grafted lower and lower and annually shortened the tops and skeletal branches. The trees turned out to be squat, stocky, with a thick trunk and thick skeletal branches. And the lower he planted, the taller and faster the trees became.
Fate said to be a breeder
Two troubles came unexpectedly. The partner (a talented engineer) made a career and transferred to Moscow. And by the time of the big harvests, I completely lost interest in the commercial garden - the selection completely captured me. He rented out a thriving garden and the next spring it burned down - someone set fire to the grass. All the oaths of the "tenants" about fire-fighting plowing and protection remained on paper. All the money spent on equipment, building a house, growing a garden burned down. Future millions in revenues also burned down. The remaining hundred of scorched, but still living trees, for several more years gave fantastic harvests of apples without care and watering (up to 30 buckets from one tree). And what is interesting - namely large, selected apples. I explain this by the fact that the roots have reached the aquifer. It is this example that I use when I criticize in the press the "struggle" of scientific circles with the central root, in scientific terms - "picking". And I call the trees mutilated by the amputation of the central root “childhood invalids”.
So, there are unique experiences, observations and technology alternative to science. Since he didn’t die of a heart attack, he had to quickly turn into a breeder, already without quotes.
Having come to his senses after the tragedy, he picked up an ax and cut down with a saw in a summer cottage in the village of Krasny Khutor (25 acres) almost all the old fruit-bearing trees of the first generations (those varieties that were in many gardens). He left priceless trees that gave me seeds for growing super-frost-resistant rootstocks: Manchurian apricots, Chinese plums, Ussuri pears, Siberian cherries. The most important task is that if I am destined to remain poor, then I will grow the best garden in Siberia, and then in Russia.
I started by planting an unmeasured amount of seeds and seeds and growing seedlings. What about cultural grafts? The garden burned down. Cut branches of cultivars in the gardens of my friends with whom I previously shared my clones. Then a hard culling of already one-year-old seedlings. The remaining grafts. The best of the best he left forever in place, the rest he sold for the sake of daily bread, or changed to cuttings of new varieties. The next year, I cut cuttings not from mother trees, but from a new generation. Planted another generation of seedlings. Again left in place the best of the best. And so on up to 3-5-7 times. With each generation, annual seedlings grew larger and more reliable to climatic anomalies and, in most cases, gave stable yields.
It didn't stop there. 
I wrote out cuttings from the best gardeners in Russia, sparing no money, according to the principle - only the best. And he also searched hundreds of gardens and took all the best from there. Of course, this is not all in one year. Instilled everything indiscriminately. Waited for fruiting (about half of the cases) or death of trees (in the other half of the cases). If the fruits are good for everyone, but smaller than expected, he destroyed the trees above the graft and grafted other varieties on the same rootstock, saving time. In some cases, it was possible to get a crop in the second year and quite often in the 3rd-4th year.
I call the super-early Manchurian apricot a gift from God. In addition to frost resistance, huge growth and large yields, he has been giving me seeds for 20 years, seedlings from which lay flower buds for 4-5 years, and in some cases for the third and (do not believe it!) For the second year. It turns out that if you combine super-fast-growing rootstocks and scions with flower buds, it becomes possible to try the fruits in the second year, and if you are not lucky, then in the third. I clarify - when working not only with apricots, but also with plums and peaches.
To extend 
century to freezing southern varieties (and at the first stage this is inevitable), never inflicted wounds on the trunk and skeletal branches. Well, shortening the side branches and tops is a necessary measure, otherwise you won’t grow a powerful tree that is resistant to winds and crops. For himself, he deduced the basic law of selection: do not help breeding trees in any way - do not cover, do not insulate, do not treat, do not water, do not replant. This is the only opportunity to promote these particular varieties to the North and East.
We are all striving for this...
Today I walk through the beautiful garden, as if enchanted, and I am surprised - everything is given too easily and everything turns out. Or maybe it's because I love the garden and try not to hurt him. And every year, the behavior of people is becoming clearer and clearer precisely on their own, well-groomed to insanely beautiful, piece of land. No, we are not descendants of monkeys. We lived in Eden, for unknown reasons we lost our beautiful ancestral home, went wild and are trying to realize the love for the perfection and beauty of nature embedded in our genetic memory in our garden. This is my main proof on the difficult path to God.
Garden in Siberia
Friends, I was in a hurry here and made for my son, the producer of seedlings, Sergey Zhelezov, a memo that he puts in every parcel. Then he admired his work, thought and decided that the same memo could be useful to all gardeners who prescribe seedlings or, God forbid, buy in the market with the accompanying "valuable" advice from sellers and neighbors ...
Reminder for buyers of seedlings with an open root system
1. Having unpacked the parcel or brought the seedlings to the garden, put them for one night in a container with cold, preferably melt or rain water in a dark, unheated room.
2. Prepare your seat. It can be done even if the ground has thawed out by only 2 horizontal fingers. That is, rake (scrape) a gentle hill 20-30 cm high (in snowy areas up to 0.5 m) and up to 2 m wide in diameter. Note: the earlier the seedling is planted, the more likely it is, given the loss of time to take root (recovery), that it will ripen before winter (buds, bark, shoots)
3. In the center of the hole, no larger than the width and depth of the straightened roots. The task of any fertilizer, even organic should be excluded.
4. If a seedling from the Zhelezovyh nursery(the nursery coordinates are below), then the pre-sale pruning has ALREADY been done professionally. Over the years, not one uncircumcised seedling has been taken out of the nursery - this is family pride and conscientiousness.
5. If you plant seedlings from the market or nurseries along the way, then do the trimming yourself, and at least half the crown. I can't be more specific without seeing your seedlings. But, I warn you - pity is inappropriate. Lack of pre-sale pruning - ignorance and betrayal of sellers and dealers and - illness and death of millions of seedlings.
6. On the Iron seedlings you can see a small speck of paint at the base of the trunk. Attention: the seedlings have the maximum chances for survival and further development if it, a speck, is present and - after planting, it looks, firstly, strictly to the south, and secondly, it will also be located in a new place on the ground-air border, since this speck is nothing more than the designation of the "root collar".
Note: root neck- this is a special place for a seedling that has grown from a seed (not buried during planting), which, after transplantation, should neither “hang” in the air, nor be buried in a new place.
7. Fertilizing only after planting, by the method of "mulching" (uniform spreading on top), stepping back from the stem of the seedling by half a meter.
And - a few pictures to confirm and supplement what has been said ...
Modern horticulture in Siberia: the rarest case - there is a mother garden of flowering apricots, peaches and cherries.
The result of the new direction "Northern Gardening" is higher in the photo and more - Online.
One of the main secrets, behind which the highest efficiency in survival and frost resistance, is the "know-how" of Zhelezova V.K.
The "bottle" technology in the first month gives an increase in reality in 2-3 months, since in a mini-greenhouse a day goes by 2-3. Hence (and only in this case!)- full maturation of seedlings during the Siberian summer, 2-3 months shorter than in the historical homeland of almost any variety.
All seedlings are treated with a solution of copper sulphate against fungal diseases and have a mark - a speck of paint, for orientation "South-North" (it is from the south!), already in a new place and it is also on the "ground-air" border, since the deepening of the root neck (where is the speck) - like death, which seedling dealers at best do not know about, and at worst they advise to bury it for vaccination and even higher.
Pruning of sent seedlings, and at the same time of seedlings purchased in the markets, is obligatory - for better survival.
Landing on gentle hills and without large holes and fertilizers.
Time passes. The result of turfing is higher (illustrative example).
Top dressing only from above - mulching and retreating from the stem.
Mandatory turfing, best of all - low-growing grass "Bolevitsa Pobegonosnaya" (without mowing) or any other with monthly mowing and leaving the mowed grass in place.
The largest hills are near apricots.
Thanks to the hills - early warming of the soil.
Mandatory pre-sale pruning in the nursery.
Indestructible seedlings of Zhelezov Sergey Valerievich.
Nursery with grafted seedlings of Zhelezova Jr.(Zhelezov Sergey Valerievich):
8-923-336-82-66, 8-983-275-40-56, This email address is being protected from spambots. You must have JavaScript enabled to view.
Website of Valery Konstantinovich Zhelezov(consultations, catalog of plants, articles).
There is a card number in Sberbank - ask.
And now - the promised fruit shots.
1.1. Apricot Academician.
1.2. Apricot Royal.
1.3. Apricot Amur.
1.4. Apricot Seraphim.
1.5. Apricot Artem-2.
1.6. Apricot Bay (Levitsky).
1.7. Apricot Manitoba 604.
1.8. Apricot Gift of Heaven.
1.9. Apricot Faina.
1.10. Apricot Manchurian Patriarch.
1.11. Apricot Manchurian. Close-up.
1.12. Apricot: Manchurian-Amur hybrid.
1.13. Apricot Manchurian hybrid. Another 5 varieties with different fruit color.
2.1. Plum Souvenir of the East.
2.2 Plum Grace.
2.3. Plum heart-shaped.
2.4. Plum Sorochinskaya.
2.5. Plum Ussuri.
2.6. Plum Red-Blue.
2.7. Plum Red-Yellow.
3.1. Peach Khasansky.
3.2. Minusinsky seedling.
4.1. Cherry Zhukovskaya.
4.2. Cherry Felt.
4.3. Cherry Vladimirskaya.
4.4. Siberian standard cherry with introduced cherry genes.
4.5. Siberianstandard cherry.
5. Mulberry with dark red fruits.
6.1. Aport 600 gr.
6.2. Aport Blood-red.
6.3. Antonovka.
6.4. Pepin Saffron.
6.5. Sinap North.
7.1. Pear Svarog.
7.2. Memory of Yakovlev.
7.3. Pear Forest Beauty.
7.4. Pear Autumn Yakovlev.
7.5. Pear Central Russian.
7.6. Pear Smart Efimova.
7.7 Pear Lute.
7.8. Pear Lada.
7.9. Pear Voronezh.
7.10. Pear Cosmic.
Zhelezov Valery Konstantinovich.
Today I would like to tell you where they came from and how they served the development of apricot gardening.
The contribution of ancestors to apricot gardening.
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, wagon trains of immigrants to the Far East were drawn from Ukraine and Belarus on oxen. After a long four years, some of them reached the place. With their own eyes, the settlers looked in surprise at the spring hills, covered with white and pink shades of blooming wild gardens. Here they first got acquainted with wild-growing fruit and berry plants - the wealth of the Far East, and later - the basis for the development of cultural gardening.
Hello, dear visitor of our blog!
We invite you to visit the virtual video tour of the garden of Valery Zhelezov called "Autumn master class in the garden." To do this, we recently visited Krasny Khutor and shot the most interesting and practical video material.
Valery Zhelezov:
Friends, I get a lot of questions from you about sheltering delicate southern crops for the winter. Thank God that there is still enough snow in Russia.
Unfortunately, not all crops tolerate snow shelter well, especially wet in the thaw and late winter.
To "strong" for freezing and damping, I include the roots and crowns of apple trees, plums and cherries. But they are just the most frost-resistant and, as a rule, "uncovered" for the winter. With the most heat-loving crops (grapes, cherries, peaches and pears), things are worse. They can be given an oblique crown shape by strong pruning or bending, get several harvests, and in some especially wet, snowy winter with thaws, they suddenly take off and sop.
But!!! My archive is invaluable, curiosity is limiting and now you will see photos that practically do not need comments and, taking into account the foregoing, will benefit you.
Note: my son Sergey Valerievich made several shelters, he is more prudent, namely, as a nurseryman (he has “his own” mother peaches - an insurance fund).
In today's newsletter, we have prepared a short video for you. This is an excerpt from a large training master class in which Valery Konstantinovich talks about the intricacies of organizing a fruit nursery and making money on it. A video lasting 17 minutes will briefly talk about new directions (methods) of selection that Valery Konstantinovich Zhelezov developed and uses in his garden. Now they are not yet recognized by science, it is strongly attached to the Michurin school. According to the author, despite the rejection by science, all his developments do not contradict the traditional school, but are its development.
There are three of these breeding methods, they allow you to get “new varieties” and unusual fruits in your garden, adapt varieties to the conditions of your site, increase biological compatibility, increase frost resistance and much more.
If you are interested in experimenting in the garden and you are fascinated by everything new, then this material is for you. Click on the link or on the image to view.
Article by Valery Zhelezova.
I'll start with a letter from Denis Yermolovich - I remind you - now is the 21st century:
Good day! My question to Valery Zhelezov:
In the book of Ovsinsky I.E. The New System of Agriculture has this observation:
As we said before plant reluctance to form seeds is explained by the fact that this process significantly depletes the plant, and often becomes even the cause of its death. There are many similar facts in the plant world.
For this reason, the fields are bushed and do not want to ripen bread, as a result being exposed to diseases (rust) and eventually producing very little and bad grain. Vegetables (cucumbers, melons) grow into leaves in gardens, fruit trees do not bear fruit in gardens, flowers do not want to bloom in greenhouses ...
Memo for buyers of seedlings with an open root system.
Now is the season for planting seedlings of fruit trees. Many millions of seedlings will be sold, transported and planted. Huge amounts of money will be and have already been squandered, which is most offensive, not the richest people - gardeners, summer residents !!! But the statistics of the survival rate of seedlings with an open root system cannot be diminished! It can be said without a doubt that most of them will not survive the first winter. Why is this happening? This is due to 2 things - the quality of the seedlings themselves and inept planting / transplanting.
And how to make sure that even a seedling of perfect quality is not destroyed during transplantation, takes root, prepares for winter and pleases with rapid growth? In this, it would seem, not the most difficult operation, there are a number of pitfalls that are important to avoid. To do this, we have prepared a short material called: “Memo for buyers of seedlings with an open root system”
